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This category is for people from the United States state of Illinois, by occupation. Classification: People: By nationality: American: By state: Illinois: By occupation.
People from Illinois by occupation (31 C) People by populated place in Illinois (430 C) People by university or college in Illinois (27 C) *
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When 16-year-old Shreya Nallamothu from Normal, Illinois, scrolled through social media platforms to pass time during the pandemic, she became increasingly frustrated with the number of children ...
It is generally agreed they crossed the Wabash River at Vincennes, Indiana, into Illinois, and the family settled on a site selected in Macon County, Illinois, [106] 10 miles (16 km) west of Decatur. Lincoln, who was twenty-one years old at the time, helped his father build a log cabin and fences, clear 10 acres (40,000 m 2 ) of land and put in ...
Margaret A. Haley (November 15, 1861 – January 5, 1939) was a teacher, unionist, and Georgist land value tax activist, [1] who was dubbed the "lady labor slugger". [2] Haley was the first business representative of the Chicago Teachers Federation and a pioneer leader in organizing schoolteachers.
Her parents later separated. [4] Both parents had multi-racial ancestry. [ 5 ] Her father's grandfather, Dolphus T. Shields (c. 1860–1950), was a descendant of slavery, with his mother a slave and his white father the heir of the slaveowner; [ 5 ] he had moved from rural Georgia to Birmingham, Alabama , where he established his own carpentry ...